Attack of the Tiny Particles - be slightly afraid

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	Attack of the Tiny Particles - be slightly afraid

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d706ea93-c26b-4918-bf77-102792f887de/D641857D-7C00-4359-B94F-9019459A740B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/12/nanotechnology-pollution" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/12/nanotechnology-pollution" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/12/nanotechnology-pollution"><H1>Attack of the Tiny Particles - be slightly afraid</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/12/nanotechnology-pollution"><H2 id="stand-first">• Report calls for more tests on 'wonder ingredient' <BR />• Proliferation of nano materials could pose risk</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/12/nanotechnology-pollution"><LI class="byline">
			 								                	        	        	            <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{Ian Sample}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{1}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/iansample">Ian Sample</A>, science correspondent
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            <A name="&lid={contentTypeByline}{guardian.co.uk}&lpos={contentTypeByline}{2}" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk">guardian.co.uk</A>,            Wednesday November 12 2008 00.01 GMT        </LI></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/12/nanotechnology-pollution"><P>The government must begin a "major and urgent" effort to assess the safety of nanomaterials, the tiny particles commonly used in products as varied as sun creams, sports clothing and medicine, leading experts warn today.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/12/nanotechnology-pollution"><P>Hundreds of consumer products made with nanoparticles, which can be 100 times smaller than a virus, are already on the market, despite an almost complete lack of knowledge of the dangers they may pose to human <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/health">health</A> and the <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment">environment</A>, according to a report by the royal commission on environmental <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/pollution">pollution</A>.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/nov/12/nanotechnology-pollution">Cosmetic companies add titanium dioxide nanoparticles to sun creams to make them transparent instead of white.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D641857D-7C00-4359-B94F-9019459A740B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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